Role: Account Executive (FTC - 12 months)

Location:Hybrid / x2 days per week in London, England

ROLE MISSION

Working in partnership with our client, the Account Executive will join our EU Retail team, working in true collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders to support a number of key processes. Working in the Projects Team, you will provide planning and administrative support to facilitate effective ways of working on upcoming projects and store openings.  

THIS ROLE IS RIGHT FOR YOU IF...

• You are an advocate for promoting positive sustainable behaviours and able to put a sustainability lens on the strategic and creative process.
• You will be open and willing to attend Change the Brief training and soak up recommended research and reading about sustainability issues.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING IN YOUR ROLE

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES 

• Work along the store projects list to learn the effected stores and their timing. 
• Follow the store opening process guide for store opening projects responsible for; ensuring full alignment with stakeholders as merchandising, visual merchandising, store development, markets and Global functions. 
• Brief retail marketing functions, sitting in the markets on roles and responsibilities and the process for the store project in line with the RACI model. 
• Follow the opening product allocation and the visual merchandising microplan to provide the store with the right mix of retail marketing tools in line with provided master orders. 
• Check floorplans, furniture and VM orders to make sure that the latest store concept features, future marketing campaigns are fully executable in windows, launch zones and category areas. 
• Onboard the new store and its details to all European systems and processes for any future campaign executions. 
• Create and flawlessly manage the ISC and window order, production and delivery. 
• Collect all information on activations 3 weeks prior to the target opening date from the local team. 
• Train the local team on the new store concept that they're ready to operate from a marketing perspective, campaigns start on time and the snagging list is followed up on.  

KEY RELATIONSHIPS 

Cluster Retail Marketing, Europe Omni-channel VM, Europe DTC merchandising, Field Teams (Retail Director, DMs, VM, Operations, etc.), Europe Business Unit Comms Teams, Europe Omni-channel Team, Global Omni-channel Market Activation, Agencies and Vendors, Global VM&ISC, Global Business Unit Retail Marketing Teams, Store Development 

WHAT SKILLS WILL HELP YOU BE SUCCESSFUL 

• Articulate, engaged and confident in communicating with senior clients  
• Highly organised and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, in a non-siloed approach 
• The ability to manage own workload  
• A passion for delivering effective campaigns   
• Excellent attention to detail   
• Strong campaign management   
• Excellent people management and communication skills  
• Desire to learn about campaign management.   
• Strong administrative capability  
• Approachable and a team player  

Knowledge, Key Skills and Abilities:  

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook) 
• Fluent in English  
• Additional languages beneficial (German, Spanish, French, or other European languages) 
• Good communication skills  
• Good organisational skills 
• Service oriented 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:  

• University degree in business, ideally with marketing and sales focus or equivalent professional experience. 
• 1-3 years Retail or Marketing experience (minimum 1 year Retail experience is essential) 
• Experience and or knowledge of Visual Merchandising would be highly advantageous 

ABOUT OUR COMPANY

Lots of agencies say they're different. OLIVER is.

OLIVER believes that agencies work better inside a brand's organisation; delivering more effective work at the speed required to drive modern businesses forward. Using our unique Inside Intelligence methodology, we build specialist, dedicated in-house agencies that collaborate with clients to form better marketing solutions.

Established in 2004, our model is now driven by over 4000 people, working across more than 200 in-house agencies globally. Clients include The Guardian, Unilever, Barclaycard, PepsiCo, AXA, The AA, Adidas, BMW, Post Office, and 3M. OLIVER is part of the Inside Ideas Group (IIG), which also includes a global content agency to Adjust your Set, design, experience, and engineering company DARE and property marketing specialists Aylesworth Fleming.

OUR VALUES

We are a company built on our values, we have given you a brief overview below but would love to tell you more.

Be Ambitious to succeed

Be Imaginative to push the boundaries of what’s possible

Be Inspirational to do groundbreaking work

Be always learning and listening to understand

Be Results-focused to exceed expectations

Be actively pro-inclusive and anti-racist across our community, clients and creations

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We've set ambitious, market-leading environmental and social goals around sustainability at OLIVER. We have committed to be net zero by 2030 and take far reaching action on DE&I in the sector. We expect everyone to contribute to our mission, embedding sustainability into every department and through every stage of the project lifecycle. 

Inside Ideas Group and its’ affiliates are equal opportunity employers committed to creating an inclusive working environment where all our employees are encouraged to reach their full potential, and individual differences are valued and respected.  All [suitable] applicants shall be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by local laws.